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From: Brian Inglis <Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca>
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU gzip-1.3.5 uploaded
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On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:27:28 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT gnu DOT org>
wrote:

>> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 22:03:05 -0700
>> From: Brian Inglis <Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca>
>> 
>> As a first approx, embed the 2.04 symlink() routine, renamed to
>> softlink(), into the 2.03 symlink() module, and call softlink() where
>> the 2.03 symlink() returns EXDEV. 
>
>In addition to this, there's this snippet at the end of `symlink' from
>v2.03:
>
>  if (spawnlp (P_WAIT, STUBIFY, STUBIFY, "-g", dest_abs, (char *)0)
>      || spawnlp (P_WAIT, STUBEDIT, STUBEDIT, dest_abs, ropt, (char *)0))
>    return -1;
>
>Should we create a v2.04 style symlink if stubify and/or stubedit
>failed in this fragment?  I don't know.

I guess some research into the failure modes and return codes of
stubify and stubedit are in order. 

>Also, there were discussions in the past (check the archives of this
>list) about some tricky situations with using the stub-style symlinks.
>It would be nice to make sure those issues are covered.

Always good to have something new to read over Xmas. 

>Finally, please make sure the code you suggest allows to make a v2.04
>style symlink foo -> bar when there's both bar and bar.exe in that
>directory.

The intermingling of 2.03 and 2.04 symlinks is looking more
interesting (as in the Chinese curse!)